Wings for the butterfly the day my life newly began is a journey a long and hard one inside a
woman's life who travelled far away from her own country and also inside herself to find a
meaning to her existence and get back the integrity that she had lost at a young age. Today
female mutilation is still practiced in various parts of the world and many young girls who
undergo FGM live in Africa. FGM is most prevalent among ethnic groups like Samburu Maasai
Somali...The author is a victim of this cruelty and through her book wants to raise awareness
among young African girls and more against a brutal practice that changes their lives
forever. The book starts with a description of a simple but happy life until the mutilation
day comes and Ntailan's existence changes completely. The way she loves herself and her body
the way she sees her parents who are guilty of allowing that her feelings towards men and life
everything is discombobulated. So the journey starts through sorrow and through a long
spiritual and psychological path of healing in order to find her real identity and roots. From
pain confusion and loss through a long period of wandering and discovery to eventual
happiness - this is her story. Ntailan Lolkoki is a Maasai-Samburu living in Berlin. She is a
painter dancer and writer but most importantly she is an activist against FGM. Her biography
was first released in Germany under the name of Fluegel fuer den Schmetterling der Tag Mein
Leben neue Began. It explains her life through FGM and the transformation thereafter. Her life
is dedicated to inspiring many others with the same or similar cases of FGM to rise and stand
for themselves facing and accepting their traumas as well as forgiving their perpetrators. She
has given talks in Germany and in Kenya on the subject to say no to FGM. She has written three
books all of them with a message to girls and women against FGM. One of her books is known as
the Kingdom of Watetu and Songaland. It is an African Fairy Tale about a Princess who discovers
as a child that FGM was wrong and went against it at the cost of almost losing her life. In the
end her sacrifices paid off as she managed to save the girls of her tribe and reunite two
neighbouring tribes at war because of FGM. Her third book is known as Life After Reconstruction
My Life After FGM Reconstruction. In it she also continues to raise awareness against FGM.
